If the value of a work of art could be measured in personalities this particular print by Donald Urquhart would command a hefty price. Susan Boyle, Tilda Swinton, The ‘Broons,’ Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor and Jack Vettriano – he need never moan again about not being part of an establishment
Speaking to Ben Miller at Culture 24, Donald had this to remark about the alphabet:
“No doubt Lorraine Kelly will be scunnered that she lost out,” he rues. “Billy Connolly didn’t even make it.
“As the alphabet evolved I realised what a low-brow bunch I was assembling. Our cultural identity is often as garish and lurid as bright tartans and blaring bagpipes.”
In the end, he says, the line-up was “no place for Greyfriars Bobby, John Knox and Mary Queen of Scots.”
“In a vague attempt at balance I tried to incorporate equal numbers of men and women, and this is why lovely Molly Weir appears in place of the more predictable W is for whisky.”
Yours for a ‘reasonable’ – a known Scottish trait – £100.
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